Like A Carpenter Without A Hammer

Being a Photography student is an interesting experience. Especially when you're in the Photography program at Gwinnett Tech.

The teachers, the classes, the classmates you meet... All in all it's a wonderful environment that I highly recommend to anyone interested in learning such a field.

But along with all of the good, there is also a healthy amount of stress.
There are, of course, deadlines to meet, rainy days where you can't shoot, having to re-shoot repeatedly to get that one shot, and the all-important critiques.
All of that comes with the territory, and none of it is anything terrible.

However, I have a bit of stress that has added to that over the past year I've been in the program.

I still don't own a digital camera.

That will hopefully be soon remedied, student loans and what not, but all the same it makes life a bit difficult.
Thankfully, through friends and the ability to check out cameras from the school I have survived enough to make it through to my second year in the program.

The head of my program, the lovely Mrs.Harkins, has allowed me to check out a camera until I am able to get my loans in.

I'm shooting right now with a Canon EOS Rebel:

 It's not a bad camera really, but it's not what I've grown accustomed to. Most of my friends shoot with Nikon, and since I've mainly borrowed from them, Michael Terrell more often than not, I prefer that brand.
Even more specifically, I've grown used to using Michael's Nikon D80:

 Of course the Canon here is a much older model, so it stands to reason that I've been spoiled by the D80's advancements. There are a lot of differences between these two models and I greatly prefer the Nikon.

I debated doing a D80 Vs the (original) Rebel, but the differences are so vast, it would be pointless. Plus it would shed a very unflattering view of Canon, which would be unfair since they do have models that both rival and surpass the Nikon D80. But beggars can't be choosers.

I'm still trying to figure out what to buy for myself, but I'll leave that for another post.

Quotable Quotes:

"Are you missing something?
Looking for something?
Tired of everything
Searching and struggling
Are you worried about it?
Do you wanna talk about it?
Oh You're gonna get it right some time"
~ Coldplay, How You See The World